Summer comes to life and the vaccination campaign slows down its course, despite the fact that one in three Italians who have been immunized (19.6 million) has crossed the line. Daily administrations are maintained above 500 thousand – as promised by General Francesco Figliuolo – but the data of the last week show a decrease compared to the previous one: from 3,832,469 of the seven days between 21 and 26 June it passed to 2,906,691 in the one that runs from 28 June to 4 July. The data for tomorrow and today’s evening are still missing, but it is foreseeable that it will remain well below the previous week’s quota. The downturn mainly affects Pfizer. Then there remains the crux of the approximately 2.5 million over 60s who have not yet received any dose.
The latest figures: there are 932 coronavirus test positives in Italy in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. An increase compared to yesterday, when there were 794. There are 22 victims in one day, 6 less than yesterday. 228,127 molecular and antigenic swabs performed. Yesterday there were 199,238. The positivity rate is stable at 0.4%.
204 patients are hospitalized in intensive care for Covid in Italy, with a decrease of 9 units compared to yesterday in the daily balance between entries and exits. The daily admissions, according to data from the Ministry of Health, were 2, both in Campania. The hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards are 1,394, down by 75 units compared to yesterday.
The cases in Italy since the beginning of the epidemic are 4,262,511, the deaths 127,637. On the other hand, the discharged and healed are 4,089,298, with an increase of 3,110 compared to yesterday, while the currently positive drop to 45,576, down by 2,203 in the last 24 hours. There are 43,978 people in home isolation (-2,119).
19,606,446 Italians have completed the vaccination cycle, equal to 33% of the population. This is what emerges from the data of the commissioner structure. The administrations have been so far 52,872,596, out of 58,914,937 doses arrived (89.7%).
Two more weeks to understand a little more the effects of the Delta variant on Covid-19 infections in Italy. “We see the data in 10-15 days and in any case the use of the mask in this phase remains fundamental in all gathering occasions. It should always be carried with you”: this is how the molecular epidemiologist of the University Campus Biomedico of Rome at ANSA , Massimo Ciccozzi stressing once again that “a single dose of vaccine does not cover” from this variant “and” we demonstrate it as Campus Biomedico, together with Silvia Angeletti, head of clinical pathology, in a case report that I am preparing on a person vaccinated with a single dose who became infected with the Delta variant. We describe this case and then we publish it “, Ciccozzi announces, recalling the data of a recent report by Public Health England for which the efficacy is 33% with the first doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca against symptomatic Delta variant disease (B. 1.617.2), three weeks after the first dose compared to about 50% efficacy against the English variant (B.1.1.7). Hence, says Ciccozzi, the need to “improve and implement sequencing despite having recovered from 0.5% to 2.5%, against 5% of the minimum threshold and against almost 10% of the British “. And on possible scenarios between now and 15 days:” At the moment the data tells us that the Delta variant is entry into Italy, is not yet predominant and we have outbreaks in various regions but controlled, with a low incidence that allows us to trace. Basically we are now running alongside the virus but we must anticipate it. You have to be very careful with surveillance. “
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